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Portland or Salzburg?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Portland
42
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Salzburg
42
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

PortlandSalzburg
Beaches & swimming. Portland and Salzburg are level on 0.
PortlandSalzburg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km279
Coast distance69 km653 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Portland leads by 25 points.25
PortlandSalzburg
Score7449
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,011348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4423
Museums & heritage. Salzburg leads by 25 points.25
PortlandSalzburg
Score3560
Museums within 10 km2342
Museums within 2 km of centre1527
Share of museums within 2 km %6564
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Portland leads by 22 points.22
PortlandSalzburg
Score5836
Drinking venues within 4 km942294
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre518241
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5582
Nightclubs within 4 km3216
Nature & day trips. Portland leads by 8 points.8
PortlandSalzburg
Score3527
Protected land share 50 km %136
Landscape blanket share 50 km %30
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km37 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Salzburg leads by 14 points.14
PortlandSalzburg
Score3448
Tourist attractions within 2 km817
Park area within 2 km37 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Salzburg leads by 11 points.11
PortlandSalzburg
Score3546
Notable places within 2 km2954
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Salzburg leads by 16 points.16
PortlandSalzburg
Score4359
Price level global10076.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Portland leads by 11 points.11
PortlandSalzburg
Score6554
Monthly daytime high7.9 °C to 27.7 °C3.4 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 145 mm47 mm to 168 mm
Dry months30
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Rainfall, mm
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Daylight, hours per day
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Portland
No sunshine record
Salzburg
3
3
5
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPortlandSalzburg
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
2 h 15 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
DenverDEN, APA
2 h 30 m
€167-182
PDX · 10 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
1 h 55 m
€186-283
SZG · 3 km
San FranciscoSFO
1 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 30 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SZG · 3 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
4 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
BostonBOS, PSM
5 h 25 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
7 h 55 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-09, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasurePortlandSalzburg
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation152 m424 m
Main airportPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortlandSalzburg
City population652,503155,021
People per km²1,7362,360
Museums within 10 km1738
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre8250

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.